Chapter 92: Sneak Attack
When Zhao Chun was trapped in the Watercolor Tribe, Laura and the others outside were experiencing a disaster, because a large number of troops of the Black Ice Tribe were quietly attacking them through the night.
According to the original plan, the army of the Black Ice Tribe is besieging but not attacking, Zhao Chun's army is backed by the Black Forest, and there is no way to escape, if they flee into the Black Forest, they can only die and be lifeless, if they do not escape, they can only wait for the food and other supplies to slowly run out, and then they will not need the army of the Black Ice Tribe to attack, they will be in chaos themselves.
But the commander of the Black Ice Tribe army this time- Marshal Ozawa doesn't think so, he thinks that in the case of the absolute superiority of the Black Ice Tribe army, it should be quickly resolved, and the long-term exposure of troops will not only seriously affect morale, but also greatly increase the burden of logistics, the Black Ice Tribe was originally on a long front and carried out several wars at the same time, so that the supply of logistics materials that was not very rich was overwhelmed, although they also fed the war with war, and frantically burned and looted in the occupied area, but the destruction of Zhao Chun's troops a few days ago obviously also hit their logistics supply systemใ
Marshal Ozawa was fully aware of this, so on the third day after arriving at the predetermined place and completing the encirclement, he ordered 100,000 soldiers to strengthen the encirclement of the area around the Black Forest, and on the other hand, he ordered another 100,000 soldiers to launch a fierce attack on Zhao Chun's troops in two directions. Through his analysis of the combat effectiveness of Zhao Chun's troops before, he concluded that Zhao Chun's troops were less than 30,000 people, and they were composed of workers who had not received much military training, and their combat effectiveness was limited. The reason why they have achieved some victories in the past is because they have exploited some loopholes in the Black Ice Tribe and specifically looked for local armies with weak defenses and weak combat effectiveness to fight, so they have unexpectedly achieved some victories.
"Report, twenty kilometers ahead, a large number of Black Ice Tribal troops are being rapidly advancing towards us, and it is expected to meet our army's forward within three hours. When Laura heard this report, it was already more than five o'clock in the afternoon, usually at this time, Zhao Chun had already returned from the exploration in the Black Forest, but today, he had not returned, and now there was such a shocking news, she was a little panicked for a while, and hurriedly asked people to call Xiaolu, Xuehe, Shen Ju, Fei Lihai and others.
"The army of the Black Ice Tribe is still two or three hours away from reaching us, but Zhao Chun has not come back from exploring the Black Forest, what should we do now?"
Xiaolu glanced at everyone and said, "When we first arrived here the day before yesterday, Commander-in-Chief Zhao told me that the enemy may adopt a strategy of besieging us for a long time, but we cannot rule out the possibility of attacking immediately with superior forces, so let me be prepared for both." Therefore, in the past two days, while you have been training intensively, I have organized more than 5,000 of my men to dig a large number of holes and tunnels, as well as many traps, within 500 meters of our camp. We came from a mining background, and many of us still carry improvised tools such as shovels and hoes, so it was not a problem to dig this up. When the enemy attacked, all of our men went into the tunnel and took advantage of our advantage to take the initiative to defend. โ
Hearing his words, Laura and the others breathed a sigh of relief, and Shen Ju smiled: "Haha, no wonder I haven't seen you in the past two days, it turns out that I went to dig a hole in the ground." Okay, let's also be ground rats again, so that the turtle grandchildren can also taste the taste of underground warfare. โ
"Having said that, but this time the army of the Black Ice Tribe is menacing, it is not trivial, they are superior in terms of numbers, combat experience, weapons and equipment, and we are on the defense this time, there is no steep terrain to use, and there are no external reinforcements, so this battle may be the most difficult battle since our uprising, if we can't survive and defeat the enemy, we are likely to die here. Laura said with a solemn expression, this is a Jedi, although the army of the Black Ice Tribe will not rashly chase into the Black Forest, but how dare he go in on his side? Because of this, Zhao Chuncai personally entered the Black Forest for several days to venture and explore the way, in addition, he also sent a large number of scouts in, but now there is no good news.
"Okay, what are you doing with so many frustrating words, since Lao Tzu was forced to smelt iron by the group of grandsons of the Black Ice Tribe, Lao Tzu didn't think about how long he could live, and now that he can kill so many turtle grandsons, Lao Tzu has already earned it. Even if he dies, Lao Tzu can kill a few more turtle grandchildren, and there is no regret. Let's go, Lao Tzu let people dig more tunnels!" Shen Ju is very heroic and authentic, and does not take life and death into his eyes at all.
"Wait. Laura hurriedly stopped Shen Ju and said, "Let's discuss the operational deployment first, according to the information we have gotten, the enemy is attacking us from two directions, so we are divided into two key directions to defend, Xiaolu leads 10,000 people to defend the west, Shen Ju leads 10,000 people to defend the south, and I lead 5,000 people as a maneuver, ready to support at any time." Filihai led a thousand men to transfer the prisoners and logistics supplies to the Black Forest, but remember not to go deep into the Black Forest until Zhao Chun returned. In addition to continuing to be in charge of intelligence, Xuehe also needs to hide our cavalry and pilots at the edge of the Black Forest, and then support the enemy when they charge......"
"It's really worthy of being the future sister-in-law, the strategic thinking is exactly the same as that of Commander Zhao, there must be no less communication in private, right?" Shen Ju couldn't control his big mouth again, and actually teased Laura.
Laura blushed and said angrily: "Don't go and prepare quickly, be careful to tear your stinky mouth!"
Shen Ju laughed and went out, and the rest of the people were also busy with the mobilization and preparation before the battle, and the whole camp was filled with a kind of depression that the mountain rain was about to come and the wind was full of buildings......
"Boom, boom......" With the roar of the spiritual cannon, the firelight broke through the tranquility of the night sky, Zhao Chun's side stretched for nearly a kilometer, and the barracks, which were originally silent, suddenly lit up with countless lights, and some of the barracks that were hit were even more burning.
When the commanders of the Black Ice Tribe saw this scene, they immediately became excited, and ordered the artillery attack to be more intense, and this time they joined the attack, not only the spiritual power cannon, but also the field artillery, rocket artillery, mortar, etc. transported from the Huoyan country, the firepower can be described as unprecedentedly powerful, if it wasn't for Zhao Chun to let Xiaolu dig the tunnel in advance, I'm afraid that these rounds of artillery fire will come down, and they will suffer heavy losses.
This round of artillery fire bombarded for an hour, not only bombing all the barracks of Zhao Chun's troops into ashes, but also turning over the ground around them, causing half a meter below the ground to be floating soil.
"Report to the marshal, our cannonballs have run out, and there are not many spirit stones left to activate the spirit cannon, do you want to launch an attack now?" On a small hillside five kilometers away from Zhao Chun's camp, Marshal Ozawa was holding a telescope to observe the situation ahead, but heard someone come to report.
As if he hadn't heard it, Marshal Ozawa said to himself: "It's strange, our artillery has been bombarded for so long, why haven't we seen many enemy troops running? Could it be that the barracks is empty? If it is empty, where have so many of them gone? Could it be that they are hiding in the Black Forest? Is this impossible?"
"Maybe our artillery fire is so fierce that we have blown these poor ghosts into scum, and we don't have time to run. An officer next to him said flatteringly.
"Stupid, no matter how fierce the artillery fire is, it is impossible to bomb 30,000 people into slag at once, even if it is 30,000 pigs, they will run around under the bombardment of artillery fire. What's more, 30,000 people, and they didn't fight back at all...... "Ozawa was furious, this group of guys didn't even notice such common sense and details, how to win the battle?
"Yes, my subordinates know that they are wrong, is it possible for them to abandon the camp and flee into the Black Forest? Let my subordinates lead people to chase them in, and wherever they flee, I will turn them to ashes!" the officer said at once.
"Well, it's quite possible that you're guessing. Pass my order, the cavalry and flying men in front, the infantry in the rear, and launch an all-out charge, and be sure to annihilate all the enemies before dawn!" Ozawa waved his hand, although there was a faint uneasiness in his heart.